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Top Chef SUPER 10: What We Learned from Episodes 8 and 9

In honor of the 10th season of Bravo’s beloved cooking competition show—and the continual stream of L.A. restaurants spawned by its contestants—we shall, every week, outline the 10 (get it?) things we learned from watching each episode. Since we were on a blogging break last week (read: egg nog coma), here are the top 10 learnable moments from the last two episodes.

10. Josie must be the worst ever

Why else would the show dedicate two entire story lines to her being crazy annoying? Even the producers seem to have turned on her. Oh also, don’t bark up her tree, or something.

…and he’s Moses. Or so he claims in episode 8’s Quickfire challenge, which he wins for a top-notch fried oyster. So, which commandment talks about proper ear gauge size again?

6. CJ’s burger is this season’s “most memorable moment.”

Ehhhh, that’s pushing it. But our hometown boy is killing it in Last Chance Kitchen, defeating Belgian Bart last week and taking on John “blame the cookware” Tesar in this week’s episode. (Watch below!)

But Stefan should probably keep that whole, “I edited together all of the Padma scenes from season 9 for my own personal sexy time video” bit to himself. #restrainingorder

3. Josie REALLY likes roller derby

See #10

2. Joshua is more of a dog person

“It’s like breaking down a cat!” says the mustached chef while chopping a rabbit to bits. I think we’ll skip the fajitas at your new Dallas restaurant, dude.

1. John invented Anthony Bourdain

Yep, without John, Tony would be a nobody—a nobody, you hear?! At least, according to John, who revealed that he was the character Jimmy Sears in Bourdain’s breakout book, Kitchen Confidential. During last night’s episode, the “old man” explains that he was responsible for getting Bourdain his first job, and introduced him to dreamboat esteemed French chef Eric Ripert. Tony, care to respond?